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The article discusses the highlights of a dialogue between Dutch United Nations (U.N.) Ambassador Herman Schaper and Hebron Mayor Khaled Osaily, moderated by Israeli academic Alon Ben-Meir. It details the different perspectives and concerns of Schaper, Ben-Meir and Osaily on issues relating to the Israeli occupation and the Arab Spring. Schaper notes that the Arab Spring and the frozen peace process have sidelined the question of Palestine at the United Nations (U.N.).

The article discusses the highlights of two panel discussions about the United Nations (UN) Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict report that were held in the U.S. in 2011. The panel discussion titled Israel's War and the Goldstone Report was held at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University in New York on May 2. It was participated by Center for Constitutional Rights professor Peter Weiss. The second panel discussion titled Blueprint for Accountability: Gaza, Goldstone and the Crisis of Impunity was held on May 19.

The article discusses the highlights of a panel about "The War on Gaza" held at Columbia University in New York on September 19, 2014. Among the participants were professors Nadia Abu El-Haj, Rashid Khalidi and Noura Erakat. Topics covered include the use by Israel of battlefield weapons on densely populated neighborhoods, the media's emphasis on Gaza's primitive homemade rockets which makes Israel seem the victim and the issue of cease-fire agreement.

This section offers updates on events related to Middle East affairs that were held in New York. The Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism held its first major event, a panel discussion entitled "Transformation of Palestine/Israel Into a Single, Secular, Democratic State With Equal Rights for All." A panel entitled "The Catastrophe of Palestine," was held by the Columbia University. A forum entitled "May 1948: A New State for Israelis, a Nakba for Palestinians," was hosted by Brooklyn for Peace.

The article presents information on a debate organized by the London Review of Books on "The Israel Lobby: Does it have too much influence on U.S. foreign policy," at the Great Hall of Cooper Union in New York City on September 28, 2006. The debate was opened by Annie-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey by asking whether the article published by Mearheimer-Walt related to Israel Lobby was anti-Semitic.

This article presents several news items on issues related to Israel and Palestine in New York City, New York. The Faculty for Israel-Palestinian Peace organizes (FFIPP) twice-yearly trips for academics to visit Israel and the occupied territories. One of FFIPP co-founders, Lawrence Davidson, professor of Middle East studies at Westchester College in Pennsylvania and his wife, cultural anthropologist Janet Amighi, gave a superb slide presentation and discussion about their June 2003 visit to the area for the Princeton Middle East Society on November 6, 2003. Three days after the U.S. President George W. Bush signed the Syria Accountability Act, professor Bouthaina Shaaban discussed on "Syrian and U.S. Relations in a Changing World" at Princeton University on December 15, 2003.